Fall Out Boy


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Take This To Your Grave (2003) , 6/10
From Under The Cork Tree (2005) , 6.5/10
Infinity On High (2007), 6/10
Folie A Deux (2008), 5/10
Save Rock And Roll (2013), 4/10
American Beauty / American Psycho (2015), 4/10
M A N I A (2018), 4/10
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Chicago's pop-core quartet Fall Out Boy (bassist and songwriter Pete Wentz, vocalist Joe Trohman, bassist Patrick Strump drummer Andy Hurley) emerged from the legion of punks playing melodic music thanks to Take This To Your Grave (Fueled by Ramen, 2003), a well-balanced collection of fast/catchy tunes with a general "emo" theme (The Patron Saint of Liars and Fakes, Dead on Arrival, Sending Postcards From A Plane Crash).

The idea of turning emo into fun was further refined on From Under The Cork Tree (Island, 2005), with a more mainstream sound and ditties (Nobody Puts Baby In The Corner, Our Lawyer, Of All the Gin Joints in the World) that were even less demanding. The singles Dance Dance, Sugar and We're Goin Down made them stars.

Infinity On High (Island, 2007) contains the single This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arm's Race, Thriller and Hum Hallelujah, and showed real musicianship from the band.

Folie A Deux (2008) was there most ebullient collection yet but with precious few ideas of where to go next.

Guitarist Joe Trohman and drummer Andrew Hurley joined the super-group Damned Things. Vocalist Patrick Stump released Soul Punk (2011). The band reformed for Save Rock And Roll (2013), a collection of truly awful, bombastic synth-pop ballads. Save the mildly more aggressive and quasi pop-metal (Bon Jovi-era) My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark. The punk-pop of PAX AM Days (2013) was merely an illusion, because My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark was the road to a mainstream synth-pop with loud guitars style that they pursued on American Beauty / American Psycho (2015), with the lively Centuries and the pensive The Kids Aren't Alright, and on M A N I A (2018), with the rocking Last of the Real Ones and the Def Leppard-esque Champion as well as nods at fashionable genres such as trop-house (Hold Me Tight Or Don't), dubstep (Young and Menace), trap (Wilson, possibly the standout) and reggaeton (Sunshine Riptide).

Make America Psycho Again (2015) is a collection of remixes of their own songs adding rappers such as A$AP, Azealia Banks, Migos, Wiz Khalifa, etc.

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